, another world

"Impossible," I watched the people in front of me, but I couldn't believe it was Hu Xiao, "Aren't they outside the door?" How did you suddenly sit in this room? "I thought of this, and I was dazed and wanted to push the door open in front of me.

But when I opened the door, I found that the door was open, and it couldn't be opened anyway, which was a strange feeling, like two people standing across from you, and they were pushing the door against the door. I suddenly let go of my hand and took a few steps back to look at the door in front of me, it was the first time I had looked at it like this, because I didn't remember anything before, and after my grandfather's death, the courtyard here was sealed, and it was impossible to get in.

The door was covered with a layer of dust, and behind the gray layer you could faintly see two carved wood carvings, they were a woman in a dress and a puppet with only a backbone support, the woman was on the left, the puppet was on the right, they stretched out their hands to form a lock pattern, and the real lock had long since disappeared, yes, this is the pattern projected on the underground of the river, a completely enlarged version.

After thinking about it, I put my head over again, and saw that the people were still sitting there, not seemingly paying attention to the movement of my door just now, still sitting there upright, if it weren't for the wide eyes I would have thought they had become puppets. "Hu Xiao." I couldn't help but scream, but those guys still didn't move, but I saw Dong Chao's head move slightly towards me.

"Damn, it's really a prank, Hu Xiao tricked me here just to scare me?" I thought indignantly.

Then I picked up a big rock from the ground and threw it in, and then ran away from the house without looking back, laughing as I ran, "Let you scare me, idiots." But when I got back to the gate of the house, I was dumbfounded. Because I saw Hu Xiao and Dong Chao and Hu Zongwei, they were sitting in front of the door, Shi Dangdang, chatting idly with nothing to do. "Impossible? Aren't they still in that house? I looked at everything in front of me dumbfounded and asked, "You've been here all along?" ”

"Yo! It's back, big adventurer. Hu Xiao sarcastically jumped off the stone with a sarcastic sentence.

"Have we been here all along?" I ignored his banter and I asked again. "Yes or no."

However, as if stunned by my expression, they nodded one after another, "What's wrong?" You don't know how to do it, do you? You go first, how can we run in before you do? ”

"That's right!" As soon as Dong Chao said this, I immediately became clear, there is only one road here, and the promenade is blocked. The only way to get through is from the patio to the backyard, so it can't be them who are in that house, "So they've been here all along?" So who are the people in the house? ”

"What's wrong?" Hu Zongwei asked.

"Nothing." I was going to say that it was all right, but thinking about what I had just seen was simply appalling, I swallowed the last word 'thing' into it. After half a ring, I chirped and said, "I saw something in that room just now. ”

"Something?" When Hu Xiao heard this, he jumped up, "I said that there are evil things in that house, you still don't believe it, but Xiao Du, what did you see?" He hurriedly asked, seeing that the heart of gossip was still temporarily in a congenital position.

"People, just a few people." I lied, "I don't dare to go in, but I can get through that door." But. ”

"Haha, you're afraid that no one will cheer you up, right?" Hu Zongwei slapped me violently and said with a smile, "It's okay, let's go with you." ”

"Hmm." I nodded and walked in with them, I don't know if it was good or bad, the scene was so weird that I had to check for myself, if those guys really didn't lie to me.

I walked cautiously on the floor on the road in front of the main house in the house, because no one could tell what the previous voice was. And whether that vague shadow was my delusion or if there was really something unclean, I couldn't say. But anyway, it's better to be careful, but for my age when I'm not afraid of heaven and earth. The little fear in my heart is just when I am afraid of a person, just like watching a ghost movie, if a large group of people are around it, I think you and I will probably treat it as a comedy.

The structure of the house was a bit weird, but it didn't stop us from getting in and walking through the hanging flower door. I stood in front of the small house again, behind the house is the shadow wall, the shadow wall is empty, compared to the atmospheric stone carvings of other people's houses and the big characters of the dragon flying and phoenix dancing, our family is indeed a lot stingy, but it is the same as this house. This shadow wall was also made by Grandpa himself.

The Shadow Wall, also known as the Zhaobi and the Xiao Wall in ancient times, is a wall used in traditional Chinese architecture to block the view. In the old days, people thought that their homes were constantly visited by ghosts. If it is the soul of one's own ancestors, it is allowed to go home, but if it is a lonely ghost who sneaks into the house, it will bring disaster to oneself.

In fact, I still asked my family about such a shadow wall, I asked why our shadow wall is just an empty wall, but my father and uncle did not give me an accurate answer, but I heard my grandfather say by chance, "There is actually a picture on this wall, but you can't see it." ”

Putting aside this wall for the time being, I came back to my senses and walked over with Hu Xiao, the door was still open, I estimated in my heart the gap in the door before I left, and then I found that the gap was still so big, so no one came out after I left? That is, to say alternatively, the person in it just now is really not Hu Xiao? "Damn, I still don't believe that there are ghosts in this world, otherwise I wouldn't have read in vain in the first few grades of elementary school."

Thinking of this, I turned my head and gave them a resolute look and poked my head out again, but before I could get to the crack in the door, I actually saw two gray-yellow earth dogs coming out of the crack in the door one after another.

Aren't these the two dogs I used to have? I crouched down and touched their heads, and they rubbed my legs affectionately. I remember when our family first moved out of here, these two little guys were still in love with me, and it was only in a blink of an eye. Suddenly my nose smelled a strong smell of decay, which I had smelled in the main room before.

I sniffed around and saw that the smell was coming from the two dogs. And when I turned around, I saw Dong Chao and Hu Zongwei's frightened eyes. "Those two dogs of yours are long dead." Suddenly, I remembered what Hu Xiao had said to me, and I looked down at the two dogs with trepidation, and suddenly my whole body trembled, yes, this is indeed my dog, even the burns on the neck are exactly the same, but aren't they dead?

Thinking of this, I slowly stood up and took a few steps back. At the same time, I saw through the crack in the door that all the things in the door actually came over, the reason why it is called a thing is because there are 3 people in the door, Hu Xiao, Dong Chao and Hu Zongwei, they walked to the edge of the door, and also looked at us through the gap, so the weirdest thing happened, Dong Chao and they saw themselves.

I thought things were getting to the point where they were going to be irreparable, and those ghosts would jump out and eat us like zombies in the movies. But gradually there was no such scene in our shouting, "they" just looked at us, but did not dare to step beyond the door, and so time passed slowly, and suddenly a man inside the door turned around and walked back.

"It's Hu Xiao." Dong Chao was beside me and said tremblingly, "That Hu Xiao went back, did you scare him away from Hu Fei?" ”

But at this time, Hu Xiao did not speak, and slowly got up from the ground and began to walk towards the house.

"Hu Fei, you're crazy. Come back. Hu Zongwei and I shouted at the same time. But Hu Xiao still showed no signs of turning back, just muttered as she walked, "I want to go home." I'm going home and he's coming to pick me up. ”

Hu Xiao's voice was still lingering in our ears, and it wasn't until he was about to walk to the door that the three of us realized that something was wrong, and jumped up from the ground together and rushed towards Hu Xiao, but it was too late, and Hu Xiao quickly ran through the door and cracked the inside of the house. At the same time, Dong Chao and Hu Zongwei in the house both turned around and walked back.

Looking at everything in front of me, I suddenly thought of something: "Why is this door opened with such a big gap?" "Obviously, only we children can drill in and out of such a gap, and adults are absolutely unable to do it, could it be that this gap is for us? The thought of this made me completely insane, and my legs began to go numb and I couldn't move a bit, but I couldn't help but look inside the door again with curiosity.

The inside of the door was still the same as I had seen before. It's just that there is an extra chair now, Hu Xiao is sitting upright on the chair and looking at the wall in the house, and at the same time there is a Hu Xiao sitting next to them, that Hu Xiao's face is pale, but there is a smile on the corner of his mouth, and then that Hu Xiao suddenly turned his head to look at me and smiled at me.

"Ahh At this moment, I screamed like crazy, and my numb legs regained consciousness due to extreme fear, and I ran away from the house with Dong Chao without looking back. The 30-minute journey home took only 10 minutes for the three of us, and we didn't stop for a moment, as if the weird smile was behind us.

When we got home, we told our families everything we had encountered on the mountain, and they all looked at us with half a doubt, until finally Dong Chao and Hu Zongwei broke down and cried, and the adults realized that something was not right, and they all drove us up the mountain again with hoes and shovels.

The house on the hill is still the same house, it is still the same house, but what we see is an empty empty house with nothing in it, but the only thing that reminds us of the terrible process is the door that cannot be opened, Hu Xiao's parents did not believe what we said at first, but as the sun set, they began to get anxious, and went crazy and beat with tools in the backyard.

But it was all in vain, because Hu Xiao was gone.

Just as we were about to light the torches and pick up the lights to search for the night, I don't know who shouted in the crowd, "Look at that wall." ”

We all turned our heads one after another, and a large stone sculpture appeared on the blank shadow wall.

The stone carving shows a person, a person sitting in a place, staring blankly in front of him, and in front of him is a house, the structure of the house is roughly the same as the backyard of our house, and after looking closely, I found that the house on the shadow wall is the backyard of our house, and that person is sitting in my current position at this moment. There is a large stone here, and next to the stone is a withered flower bed, the location of which is easily recognizable.

This was carved at that time? I looked at all this in amazement, wondering if it was affected by the light, and the reliefs on the shadow wall were emerging, which must have been one of the whimsical ideas designed by my grandfather, just like in the movie, when you decipher the code, some paper needs to be soaked in water or something.

But soon I found out that this was not actually the shadow wall relief left by my grandfather at that time, but a different scene in our yard now, because I saw that the flowers in the flower bed on the relief were all withered, and the door was open, and everything was like a mirror projected on the scene at this moment.

"Mother, what's going on?" Everyone in the room stared at the shadow wall, and suddenly one of them shouted, "Move, move, look at the door." ”

I followed his voice and suddenly looked towards the door of the house in the shadow wall, and sure enough, I found that there was an extra footprint in the stone carving, and it was still going on, one, two, three, four, a series of footprints appeared in the wall like a child's steps, and things had developed to the point of unbelievable, but it was more than that.

The series of footprints suddenly stopped when they reached my location, and perhaps because they had discovered the secret inside the shadow wall, everyone turned their eyes to me. I also took two steps back and looked there, if I remember correctly, there was still a person sitting in this position, if everything in the shadow wall was a true portrayal of the scene, then who would be sitting here?

I looked over to the shadow wall in the crowd, and while everyone was expecting something to happen in the courtyard, I was the only one who looked at the place, where the man who had been seated stood up, and he followed the direction of the footprints and followed the open door of the house. It was as if someone was saying to him, "No one wants you anymore, come with me." And the moment he stood up, I saw the face of it, and although it was a stone sculpture, I would never be mistaken.

That person was Hu Xiao. (To be continued......)